Monday, August 15, 2016

Less Money More Stuff

L20 has a big facility, but it's not infinite, and right now, they are in full production mode, churning out small, medium, and large ships for every government. There isn't a lot of ground fighting, though, so they were able to make the full order of power armor suits: 10 command suits, 10 weapon's expert suits, and 180 Soldier Suits. In fact, they threw in a walker, too. No armored assault is complete without a giant mech, right?
200 Suits of Power Armor: $116,463,000
All suits have Pace 8, Armor 10, Self Sealing, and Targeting System.Command: $595,700; Command Pack, Portable Missile LauncherWeapon's Expert: $1,120,000; Autocannon (50/100/200, 3d8 dmg, RoF 3, 100 shots, AP 25, HW)Soldier: $551,700; Grenade Launcher, Gatling Laser

Additionally, L20 refitted a gargantuan warship, completed two planet-pounders and two carriers, and churned out a full bay of heavy bombers and beamers (high-power fighters) for each carrier. The carrier doesn't have a lot in terms of weapons, but the bombers each have a huge number of torpedos, and the fighters are designed for taking on capital ships. The planet-pounder ships are designed to hit hard and leave nothing in their wake.

Last but not least is a piece of brand new technology: swarm ships. These tiny ships have no human pilot; instead, they are controlled by advanced technology from a small, well-armored carrier. The ships are incredibly fast and pack a decent punch - not enough to to up against capital ships, but fighters stand no chance.

That puts the total at 200 power suits, 1 mech, 1 gargantuan ship, 2 giant ships, 2 carriers, 16 fighters, 12 bombers, 1 swarm carrier, and 8 swarm ships, for a grand total of $2,865,918,000. Additionally, the required crew won't work for free; a year's wages are going to cost about $355 million, give or take. Good crew aren't cheap, but that kind of money should hire some decent folks.

All told, that means the existing funds have been reduced to $779,082,000; about enough to fund two years of crew. Granted, with the factory ship, funds will start coming in. But what will the crew do with their new fleet?